Wilson, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wilson town. It lies in ZIP code area 54726. The Survey maps it on the Lake Eau Claire East quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Wilson within Eau Claire County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1952 USGS Cadott quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Lake Eau Claire East quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Wilson between 1992 and 2019, burning about 94 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BROCADE FIRE
8 May 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BEAGLE FIRE
5 May 2018	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SUGARBUSH
4 May 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eau Claire County

Storms near this place

3 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilson in 3 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilson	$3,000	Several large trees were blown down in the town of Wilson.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilson	-	A portion of the roof was blown off a house. A garage door of a large machine shed was blown off. A smaller shed across the road was damaged. About two dozen trees were broken or knocked over, northeast of where the tornado had dissipated. There was no apparent path nor was there any sign of convergent damage.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilson	-	About two dozen trees were knocked over, northeast of where the tornado had dissipated. There was no apparent path nor was there any sign of convergent damage.

Every storm recorded in Eau Claire County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ludington	5.6 miles	11
Augusta	11.4 miles	12
Rodell	11.5 miles	12
Fall Creek	14.2 miles	14
Hay Creek	14.5 miles	12
Fairchild	16.0 miles	12
Hale Corner	17.7 miles	12
Brackett	19.5 miles	12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Wilson	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8022960	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577888. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.